She sounded hostile suddenly, and I felt hostile. We hadn’t been when we parted, not at all. I was surprised to feel so hostile. I had been brooding for days. I guess I blamed her for not making us work. I guess she blamed me for the same thing. When she told me she was leaving I had felt paralysed. I felt really helpless.
—Larry McMurtry, All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, Liveright, 2018 (1972)
— Porque continuas a magoar-me?
— Não sei, talvez seja amor.
Gûzen to sôzô (2021) de Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.
All the screwing should have changed something, or made some fundamental difference. It shouldn’t have left things just the same.
—Larry McMurtry, All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, Liveright, 2018 (1972)
Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
—Gregory Benford, Timescape,1980 (Wikipedia)
— Eu punha-a era num palco em Banguecoque a disparar bolas de pingue-pongue.